THE KITCHEN GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE The Kitchen presents FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR THEIR SUPPORT as of 3/6/2010 Derrick Adams / Narcissister $1,000+ continued $250+ May 14 and 15, 2010 Caroline & Rod Keating Laura Ruth Abel Tonya Bonakdar Gallery Kenneth S. Kuchin Curated by Rashida Bumbray Rachel & Jean-Pierre Lehmann Joseph Ehrlich and Katherine Rosman Dorothy Lichtenstein David Fanger & Martin Wechsler Lehmann Maupin Gallery Spencer Finch Patricia Lizarraga Gisela & David Gamper Derrick Adams: Go Stand Next To The Mountain Serena & John Moon David Gordon & Valda Setterfield Barbara & Howard Morse David Herskovitz Eve & Dennis Mykytyn Rene Hofstede Original Music by Philippe Treuille Anne & William Palmer Brian Kish Performers: Derrick Adams, Kenya Robinson, and Philippe Treuille Stacey & Douglas Polley Zsuzsanna Karasz & John Lipsky Dr. Elisa Rush Port Gregory R. Miller Special Appearances by: Nancy & Fred Poses Gifford Miller David Moodey Yancey Richardson "Diva Dutch" by Aisha Cousins Beth Rudin DeWoody Michael Rengers Astrid & Cristian SabellaRosa Andrea Rosen Gallery Jumpers: Aisha Cousins & Kenya Robinson Lexy Schmertz Nusbaum & John Nusbaum Frederieke Sanders Taylor Debra & Dennis Scholl Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Turners: Alicia Dellimore & Alisun Dellimore Ryan Trecartin Jonathan Schorr Suzanne Vielmetter Lea Simonds Amanda Weil "Do You Wanna Go" Written & Performed by Art For Money recording artists: Lisa Singer Moran & Charles Moran Gail & Biddle Worthington Momar Clemons Omar Davis Ramon Silva Annaliese Soros , & Andrea Soros and Eric Colombel Hilary & Robert Steinman Video appearances: Derrick Adams, Collette Blanchard, Michael Chuapoco, Kenya Amanda McGowen and Larry Vitale Robinson, Philippe Treuille Sofia & James von Moltke $100+ Younghee Kim-Wait & Jarett Wait Miguel Abreu Gallery Video Production: Michael Paul Britto, Michael Chuapoco, Jacolby Satterwhite Thea Westreich & Ethan Wagner Edward Albee Christine Zehner Oliver Allen Set Design & Construction: Derrick Adams, Michael Chuapoco, Carlos Sandoval de Leon Lois Bianchi $500+ Eric Bogosian & Jo Bonney Anney Bonney ~INTERMISSION~ Fernanda Arruda Thomas & Kamala Buckner Mei Mei Berssenbrugge & Richard Tuttle Sage & John Cowles Carmine Boccuzzi & Bernard Lumpkin William J. Dacey Marianne Boesky Heimbinder Family Foundation Narcissister: This Masquerade Louise Bourgeois TR Henigson JK Brown & Eric Deifenbach Nicole Fix Kristin & Francis Casale Jason John Co-director: Rob Roth Susan Hancock Shyam Maskai Galerie Lelong Jennifer Lynn Mazza Production manager: Evan Collier Raymond T. & Maryanne Lyons Brian Moon Set design: Evan Collier and Narcissister Jennifer McSweeney Sal Randolf Sara Meltzer Ira Resnick Sister choreography: Vanessa Walters The Mufson Family Foundation Susan Reynolds Narcissister choreography: Wanda Gala, Caroline Copeland, Tamara Curic, Narcissister PaceWildenstein Jane Richards Edwin Schlossberg Peter Snyder Original music: Evan Collier Stephanie Schumann Joan & Lawrence Sorkin Cindy Sherman Paul Young 18th Century Dress: Kaytee O'Brien/ Papuza Couture Stephen Soba Laura Zampa Varinda Missett & Eric Strauss Cake: Sweet Chemistry Oakleigh Thorne Sisters: Leslie Cuyjet, Alexis Convento, Juri Onuki, Mona Afable, Siobhan Burke, Micki Wesson Jennifer Jaffe, Karen Holmes, Katie Cercone, Matthew Chiu, Reginald Hudlin, Meredith Claire, and Lainie Dalby The Kitchen benefits from Materials for the Arts, a program of the Knitter: Sarah Benzaquen Lumpkin NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation. Bodybuilder: Roxanne Edwards

This program was made possible with the support of the Jerome Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council The Kitchen's continued vitality depends on the generosity of its contributors, whose donations are 100% tax- on the Arts, a state agency. deductible. Please call Jess Dang at 212-255-5793 x 10 to discuss the benefits of becoming a donor or to establish a corporate match for your contribution. All checks can be sent to Attn: Kitchen Contributions, 512 West 19th Street, NYC 10011 SPECIAL THANKS THE KITCHEN GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE Derrick Adams would like to thank the artists and performers for their generous time FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS, FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS AND and creativity; thank you to Rashida Bumbray and The Kitchen for this great opportu- GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR THEIR SUPPORT as of 3/6/2010 nity; and to my family and friends for their support and love. $40,000+ The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust $5,000+ continued Narcissister would like to thank her entire cast and crew for offering their time, en- Charlotte & Bill Ford The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs The National Endowment for the Arts through the Office of Council Speaker thusiasm and talent; her interns: Ariel Brickman, Laura Clark, Laura McMillian, Karen Sukey Cáceres Novogratz & Mike Novogratz Christine Quinn Holmes, Eleanore Hopper, Amanda Isaacs, and Connor Keating; Wanda Gala, Nirah The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Joelle & Jonathan Resnick The New York City Council Jennifer & Jonathan Allan Soros Jonhson, and Simon Hammerstein/The Box NYC, for their invaluable support of the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Narcissister project; Rashida Bumbray for making this tremendous milestone possible; Melissa Schiff Soros & Robert Soros Mila & Thomas Tuttle The Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation Anna Verdi & John MacIntosh and her family: Mom, Bernard, Carmine, and in spirit, Dad. Extra special thanks to Evan Illya Szilak & Chris Vroom Hesu Coue-Wilson & Edward Wilson for his crucial input and support in immeasurable ways. $20,000+ Chris Ahearn & Marla Mayer $2,500+ BIOS: Go Stand Next To The Mountain Carnegie Corporation of New York Alexandra Ackerman The Greenwall Foundation Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist currently represented by IAC/InterActiveCorp The Amphion Foundation The GRAMMY Foundation ® Axe-Houghton Foundation Collette Blanchard Gallery. He is an alumni of The Skowhegan School of Painting & The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Liz and Matthew Baird Jacqueline Reses & Matt Apfel Sculpture, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program and received his MFA from Columbia The Aaron Copland Fund for Music The James E. Robison Foundation The Cowles Charitable Trust University and BFA from Pratt Institute. In addition to making art, Adams is the former Melanie Shorin & Greg S. Feldman Katie Cusack The Danielson Foundation Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery in New York. In 2009, Adams launched the Alison and David Cody creative online destination, Bingeonline.com, and is a recent recipient of the 2009 Louis $10,000+ Elizabeth Dee Gallery The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Comfort Tiffany Award. Kyra Tirana Barry & David Barry Bloomberg Susan & Arthur Fleischer, Jr. Joan and Joseph Cullman Family Foundation Andrea & Marc Glimcher Kenya (Robinson) is a self-taught artist from Gainesville, Florida. Inspired by a rich social The Dedalus Foundation, Inc. The Harkness Foundation for Dance community, her work is influenced by the use of mass consumer items as art material. Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo Douglas Hand & Katie Zorn Hand The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Jerome Robbins Foundation A resident of Brooklyn, NY she is expanding her studio practice to include site-specific The Jerome Foundation The NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation through the offics of installation, printmaking, and sound-performance art. Her debut exhibition, HAIR- Stefan Kaluzny Donald Mullen Assembly Member Richard N. Gottfried and POLITIC: The Pursuit of Nappiness, was featured at the Museum of Contemporary African The Orentreich Family Foundation State Senator Thomas K. Duane The Overbrook Foundation Nicolas & Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Diasporan Arts in 2008. A current resident of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Brenda & John G. Roche Kim & David Schrader WorkSpace residency, recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council Re-Grant, and funded by the Fiona & Eric Rudin Eugene Singer Virginia & Willard B. Taylor Randy Slifka Hudson Country Office of Art and Culture (for her curatorial work: AfricanAmericana), she Thomson Reuters Swarovski Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund continues to explore various modes of creativity. Franny Heller Zorn & Richard Zorn Philippe Treuille grew up in New York City, developing an interest in the arts early on in life. $5,000+ $1,000+ Taking a turn into classical music from the stylistic garden of punk rock at age fourteen, Jody & John Arnhold Balenciaga Elsie & Bernard Aidinoff Philippe carved out the beginnings of a future as a composer. After studying composition, Eileen & Michael Cohen Dierdre Barry privately, with Sergio Reyes and Kendall Briggs, Philippe attended the Juilliard Pre-Col- Paula Cooper Gallery Barbara Brooks-Baxter & James N. Baxter Paige Daly & Stephen DeBlasi Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo lege as a composer, studying with Andrew Thomas. After a year there, he enrolled in the Molly Davies Judith L. Church James Cohan Juilliard School as a full-time composition freshman, studying with Chris Rouse. After one Suzanne & Douglas Durst Rebecca & Marty Eisenberg Marri Davis & David Moffly year though, Philippe left Juilliard and moved to Chicago to attend Northwestern Univer- Evercore Partners Jeffrey Deitch Zach Feuer Melissa Feldman sity, where he remained for five more years, eventually graduating in June of 2008 with a Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Marci Field Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition. While Hand Baldachin and Amburgey LLP Al Gillio & Paul Bernstein Hermine & David Heller Jennifer Goodale at Northwestern, Philippe studied with Augusta Read Thomas, and composed for several HSBC Private Bank USA, a division of HSBC Bank USA, Lisa Ivorian Gray Greene Naftali Gallery student productions, including the theme music for a student-run radio show on WNUR, NA Andrew Kreps Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro Northwestern’s radio station. Since graduating, Philippe has returned to New York City, Mia Jung & Scott M. Lawin Marieluise Hessel/Dasein Foundation Frederick McConkey Jim Hodges where he has taken up painting, first at the Art Students League of New York and later at Metro Pictures Kelly Hoey & Charles Masson Parsons where he is now preparing to receive a certificate in fine arts. Pricewaterhouse Coopers Fredricka Hunter Cortney & Bob Novogratz Robert Hurwitz Pro Helvetia Stephanie & Tim Ingrassia Aisha Cousins' performance art score Diva Dutch has been interpreted on public streets Zsuzsanna Karasz & John Lipsky across the US and overseas, as well as in cultural institutions such as Houston's Project Elena & Paz Kaspi Row Houses, MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), and the Brooklyn Museum. She is currently working on a 365 day performance entitled The PLEASE SAVE THE DATE! Obama Skirt Project Art For Money Records (AFM) is an innovative independent recording label that is inspired by the do-it-yourself motto: a generation of artists who take their futures into their own hands. AFM is here to change the status quo of the struggling artist. Founders Momar Clemons and Ramon Silva use their skills in the fine arts to create a unique stylistic fusion of the Golden States pop culture and Brooklyn's heart and soul, while aiming to tran- The Kitchen Spring Gala After-Party scend and evolve pop culture. AFM label artist CrashPlanet (aka Omar Davis) was born in beautiful Corpus Christi, Texas. Crash is a multi-faceted individual whose talents as a musician/singer songwriter span a wide variety of genres including house, rock, R&B, Honoring hip-hop, and most recently electro pop. BIOS for This Masquerade David Byrne Narcissisteris a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Her formative training took place at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. Among her professional highlights was being selected to perform with the Ailey Company in Memoria, one of Ailey’s seminal pieces. Wednesday, May 26, 2010 In addition to performance work, Narcissister does collage, sculpture, video art, and photography. Her studio residencies include The Whitney Museum IS Program, The 9:30 - Midnight Woodstock Center for Photography AIR Program, and the Art in General Eastern Eu- ropean Residency Program. Narcissister has also worked extensively as a commercial Hosted by The Smile and The Journal artist, designing window displays and working as a stylist and art director. The Narcis- sister performance project integrates her prior experience as a professional dancer Open bar, desserts, DJs and dancingfeaturing a special live musical with her current visual and commercial art practices. Her art film “The Self-Gratifier” won an award for “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at The 2008 Good Vibrations Erotic Film performance. Festival. In April 2009 she was awarded a Backstage Magazine “Bistro Award” for Outstanding Vaudeville/Burlesque Performance, a category created especially to honor Tickets are $75. ($65 tax-deductible) Narcissister’s performance work. A featured performer at The Box NYC, Narcissister has also presented work at The New Museum, Deitch Projects, Joe’s Pub, in the Wei- Capitale 130 Bowery at Grand Street, New York City mar New York and Tingle Tangle shows, and has starred in and curated performance shows at Santos Party House and The Zipper Factory. Narcissister is also developing Honorary Co-Chairs Co-Chairs an international following. In Spring 2009 she was invited to present her first evening Andrea & Marc Glimcher Charlotte & Bill Ford length solo show as part of the Music Biennale in Zagreb, Croatia. In the Fall 2009 Robert Hurwitz Jacqueline Reses & Matt Apfel she presented work at Chicks on Speed’s Girl Monster Festival in Hamburg, Germany, Susan & Peter MacGill Melanie Shorin & Greg S. Feldman and at “The Festival of Women” in Ljubljana, Slovania. She also presented work at Caetano Veloso Warehouse 09, Copenhagen’s first live art festival, and at “Bordel Des Arts,” a perfor- mance series at Lucas Carrieri gallery in Berlin. Narcissister is currently a re-performer of Marina Abramovic’s Luminosity piece as part of the groundbreaking retrospective “The Artist is Present” at MoMA. Evan Collier is a renaissance man in the true sense of the word. One of Evan’s main focuses, which draws on his eclectic background, is the design, production and instal- lation of sets, props, and rigging systems for theatrical productions, nightlife venues, and performance artists. Evan is also a sound engineer, producer, and DJ under the moniker Exceed Eternal. His connection with the theatre and performance art commu- For more information, please contact: Kerry Scheidt at (212) 255-5793 nity has presented him with many opportunities to compose and arrange music for live ext. 20 or via email at [email protected] or visit www.thekitchen.org/ performances. He has performed with avant-garde performance artists and choreogra- gala2010 phers such as Narcissister, Vanessa Walter’s ‘The Man Dancers’, Yozmit and others. In addition he is a yoga teacher, and a budding acrobat and aerialist. Evan has been a co- creator of the Narcissister project since its inception. Please visit www.evancollier.com New York City director and visual artist Rob Roth is a inventive and influential Sisters presence in downtown art and culture. His multi-disciplinary work has been Mona Afable is a dancer who lives in Brooklyn. She works with Thang Dao Dance Com- exhibited at a variety of venues including the New Museum for Contemporary pany, Indelible Dance, Metropolitan Opera, C. Eule Dance, and Tina Croll + Company. She Art, Performance Space122, Abrons Art Center, Galapagos Art Space, and appears in Patrick Daughters' and Marcel Dzama's video "No One Does It Like You" for Deitch Projects as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recently Roth Department of Eagles and Nancy Redd's book "Body Drama." directed ‘The Mystery of Claywoman’, a Mockumentary Film/Performance piece Katie Cercone has shown her interdisciplinary collage, installation and performance written and performed by Michael Cavadias and featured Amy Poehler, Alan around New York City and abroad. She has published critical feminist writing in Bitch Cumming and Edgar Oliver. Claywoman follows on the heels of Roth's award Magazine, the Utne Reader, Women’s Art Journal and N.Paradoxa. winning apocalyptic rock opera, Screen Test. The film version of Screen Test is Matthew Chiu. Age: 21. Height: 5'9". Weight: 120 lbs. Hair: black. Eyes: brown. Dress set to premiere in fall of 2010 as well as Roths first solo photo show at Wild size: 2-4. Shoe size: womens 9-9.5, men's 8.5-9. Occupation: dancer/stylist. Project Gallery. Meredith Claire is honored to work with Narcissister. She is a magical realist. She loves Vanessa Walters originally hails from Baltimore, land of John Waters and crab Jesse and thanks the sisters. magicalreal.org cakes, where she began dancing in high school. She then came to the big city to Alexis Convento has had the pleasure to freelance with numerous projects/ companies attend NYU’s TSOA, got her BFA, and has lived here ever since. Since 1999, her including Ayo Jackson/les libertines, DexDance, Collective Body Dance Lab, Department of main focus has been working with Fischerspooner, a performance group known for Eagles, Mylène Farmer, and Narcissister! Alexis also has a passion for wine swooshing and combining pop entertainment with a high art sensibility. Since 2001, Vanessa has record-playing. She thanks her family and friends for their never-ending support! been the lead choreographer of Fischerspooner and has traveled extensively with Lainie Dalby is a queer Brooklyn-based experiential artist and performer who has been them through the States, Europe, South America, and Australia. Also, Vanessa exhibited internationally. Visceral P.L.A.Y. is the unpredictable synthesis of her life and has choreographed music videos for artists such as the Blank Dogs, Department art focusing on the collision of pop culture and the sacred, as well as instigating wearable of Eagles, Cyndi Lauper, and Kings of Leon to name a few, and live events for sculptures, ritual happenings and multi-sensory environments where Visceral Pleasure House of Diehl, JVA, Daisy Spurs, Chaos & Candy, Narcissister, and her own Loves Accommodating You. She is currently going through a period of intense transmuta- projects – “Bathory” and “The Man Piece”. To find out more, please visit tion in Seminary school to become an Interfaith Reverend, where she is drawn to illuminat- www.vanessawalters.com! ing aspects of our shared human condition, promoting awareness of the body and senses, and instigating a deeper understanding of the soul overall. Caroline Copeland leads an eclectic career in the dance world as a contemporary Roxanne Edwards N.P.C. National Competitor , Personal Trainer, Fitness Model, Actress. performer and early dance specialist. She is a member of the New York Baroque Recently appeared in Caligula Maximus directed by Alfred Preisser as Sappho Sabratha, Dance Company under the direction of Catherine Turocy and has performed Gladiatrix/Bodyguard. Currently preparing for The Master's Nationals in July, in which, with numerous groups including the Metropolitan Opera, theBoston Early Music she hopes to attain her status as a Professional Body Builder. Festival, and Company Rindfleisch. Her choreography has been shown at the historic Federal Hall and the Allen Room in NYC. This spring she choreographed Karen Holmes is so glad you're here! She's experiencing this show as a valiant refusal to two productions at Cornell University, Rousseau's Le Devin du Village and succumb to her inner critic's insistence on passivity, destruction and self-hatred. Let's Stravinsky's A Soldiers Tale and made her directoral debut in Handel's Alcina all raise our fists in solidarity and befriend the power of our critics, channeling it into for Bourbon Baroque, in Louisville, KY. courage and victory! She is honored to be a part of this show. Karen is also a massage therapist. For more info: [email protected] Wanda Gala is a North American choreographer, dance researcher and Reginald Hudlin, a dancer, actor, and artist originally from St. Louis Missouri, can be seen pedagogue whose professional interest in the embodiment of cultural acting in the feature film "MIl Masceras vs The Aztec Mummy," commercials for South- phenomenon unifies her practical, academic, and artistic work. For over two Western Illinois College, and as an interviewer for "JCRocks". He has worked as a go-go years she's been working with Narcissister on works that have been presented at dancer in multiple see-and-be-seen nightspots. The New Museum, Deitch Projects, The Box, and others venues in NYC. More Jennifer Jaffe has appeared in film projects, music videos and commercials. Wanda: http://www.crashfall.org She is featured in Outpost's interpretation of JG Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition. Modeling work includes numerous publications, ads and editorials, both in NYC and Europe. She enjoys dance and yoga, and digs in nature. Sister Sue Jay (Leslie Cuyjet) is a left-handed, vegetarian, self-proclaimed cynic with a heart on her sleeve. She can be found in the horizontal, adoring herself, or in any mirror or reflective glass indulging in her everyday applause of herself. Critics and fans agree, the Narcissister home is the perfect castle for Sue's royal ego.